Quick Rewrite.
The big battle that cripples the Resistance happens at the very begining, as a desperate assault by the First Order. The battle leaves the Resistance main ship crippled and Leia unconcious. Holdo takes power and immediately orders for the entire fleet to disperse as the First Order can only detect the bigger ship and tey must be in no shape to give chase to so many ships going in different locations. They are given orders to reconvene later on on the Salt planet but only after they are sure they have lost the first order. This set up would put different combinations of characters in separate locations to each have their own little arc, maybe Kylo Ren acts upon his emotions and abandons the fleet to chase the ship his unconcious mother escaped on.

I don't know why it would affect me as much as it did being that I'm not even a huge Star Wars fan, but that bit towards the end with Mark Hamill's reaction to Simon Pegg talking about how his character was a source of inspiration in the original movies left an incredibly bitter taste in my mouth. This really is like bad fanfiction come to life, killing off the old characters and using their carcasses to incubate a clutch of Mary Sues.

I don't know why it would affect me as much as it did being that I'm not even a huge Star Wars fan, but that bit towards the end with Mark Hamill's reaction to Simon Pegg talking about how his character was a source of inspiration in the original movies left an incredibly bitter taste in my mouth. This really is like bad fanfiction come to life, killing off the old characters and using their carcasses to incubate a clutch of Mary Sues.

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That part really hit hard. Mark Hamill really just seems like he wants everyone to enjoy the movies. Hearing Simon Pegg talking about how Luke Skywalker had such an impression on him must have been so hard since he knew that the Luke Skywalker Hamill and Pegg knew and loved is dead. But he just wants everyone to have fun, so he gives his best to be positive about the movie, as much as he could. It's really sad to see him this way.

I know it's an overused trope to say "This franchise is deeeeeaaaaaaad", but it does feel like "killing" Star Wars, or at least what Star Wars used to be, was Rian Johnson's goal. By subverting every single aspect of what made the franchise so "magical" he actually did kill the old Star Wars.
Which is a remarkable feat, given that the franchise is so huge and diverse in its tones and settings.

Even without that, as that 3 part video so eloquently puts together, the script is just terrible, full of rather blatant poor writing that you wonder why it's getting such a complete pass from people, specially when the Prequels got nitpicked to hell and back.

Wanna hear someone break their arm jerking off to the fact they liked The Last Jedi?

Did you just hear that sound guys? That was Goerge Lucas, he reliefed since now he's not the worst person in Star Wars anymore.

Rian Johnson has taken over.

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Quite a remarkable feat. Ruin Star Wars harder than George Lucas himself. Conglaturations Rian Johnson, you have finished a great franchise!
But yeah, that video series you posted was quite remarkable in its scope, eloquence, and depth. Nothing to add there.